"If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them."

George Santayana

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

Walter Bagehot

"We are our choices."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"But, dear me, let us be elegant or die."

Louisa May Alcott

"Expressing oneself is like a drug."

Ai Weiwei

"Man’s main task is to give birth to himself."

Erich Fromm

"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane."

Hermann Hesse

"The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story."

Byron Katie

"The Beautiful is always strange."

Charles Baudelaire

"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?"

Ralph Waldo Emerson